Earlier this month, TV talk-show host Dr. Phil McGraw asked Donald Trump if he’d declare that revenge “is a race to the bottom and it stops here.”
“I’m okay with that,” Trump replied, but “revenge can be justified, though, I have to be honest, sometimes it can.” And it’s tempting, given “what I’ve been through.” Trump also told Sean Hannity he would “have every right to go after” his opponents.
There is no reason to doubt he means what he has said. Revenge has been a major theme of his reelection campaign. If he returns to the White House, Trump has affirmed, weaponization of the Department of Justice “could certainly happen in reverse … if I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say go down and indict them.”
Trump promised to appoint a special prosecutor to “go after the most corrupt president in the history of the USA, Joe Biden, the entire Biden crime family, and all those involved with the destruction of our elections.” He would make MSNBC “pay” for its “illegal political activity” and “come down hard” on Brian Roberts, the “sleaze-ball” CEO of Comcast, which owns the channel. A few weeks ago, Trump demanded indictments of all the members of the House Select Committee on January 6, 2021 for “illegally deleting and........